'I don't believe it!': stars on life haunted by their catchphrases
How do actors cope with having their defining line shouted at them in the streets – for decades? Richard Wilson, Maureen Lipman and Tony Robinson tell all
March 2019
10 of the strangest star cameos in video games
Rami Malek’s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty … improbable roles for A-listers
January 2011
Midgets Vs Mascots – review
It aspires to Borat and Jackass, but this contest for money is just crass bad taste, and humourless with it, writes Peter Bradshaw
May 2010
Gary Coleman
Gary Coleman's troubled co-stars
Gary Coleman, star of Diff'rent Strokes, dies at 42
Music blog
Rhymes against music: when actors try to rap
November 2006
Film blog
Suffer little children
From Jackie Earle Haley to Gary Coleman, Jack Wild to Macaulay Culkin, child stardom can be a passport to obscurity. Why is it that so many of Hollywood's little darlings crash and burn?
May 2000
Diff'rent role for sitcom star
Think Ronald Reagan. Think Clint Eastwood. Think Glenda Jackson. Think Gary Coleman? Unlikely as it may seem, the pint-sized former child-star of Diff'rent Strokes is hoping to join the ranks of luvvies-turned-politicos by running for the US Senate
November 1999
Short orders
Child star Gary Coleman had it all. In 1984, he was earning $80,000 a week for his role in hit US sitcom, Diff'rent Strokes. So why is he now selling his personal effects on the internet to pay off his debts? He talked exclusively to Danny Leigh
